john thain taking our own, talking to him about his plans for cit and you know, charlie. now, you're coming out here because you've opinion reporting all day about -- >> and yesterday. melissa: about john thain out there shopping cit i understand another network which shall remain nameless. >> i call them brand x. melissa: was refuting your story? >> he tried to refute it on brand x. what, listen, when john thain was actually a major player on wall street, cit is not a major player i used to take glee when he refuted my old stories because he mattered at new york stock exchange and merrill he tried to refute all sorts of stuff. they need to raise capital at merrill. he would say they don't and they would raise capital. i would say he is on the ropes with ken louis he will not replace him after the bank of america brought merrill lynch. he got replaced. as a matter of fact john thain knew he was going to be replaced he saw me, he saw me on tv announce it. has history of this. today i think he was pretty squirrely. like he said not player he once was. i want to address coup